Properties of the number 16
Indicate the achievement of the material power.
Being considered as the "final" number of the emanation, it represents the Incarnation completed, according to Abellio.
According to R. Allendy, it represents "the role of the Karma 6 in the cosmic unit 10. This role consists in creating a current of evolution (1 + 6 = 7) but towards two opposite directions, so that, by itself, 16 even number, is unable to choose." As a product of 2 x 8, it is the positive evolution leading to the karmic liberation, or the negative evolution leading to an increasingly tight sequence in the cycles of nature.
For J. Boehme, this number represents "the Abyss", or the hell, opposed to the nirvana.
According to Creusot, it symbolizes the construction and the destruction.
According to Guy Tarade, it is the number of Lucifer.
The Old Testament counts 16 prophets and the New Testament counts 16 apostles and evangelists.
Joash reigned sixteen years on Israel to Samaria. (2 K 13,10)
Uzziah had sixteen years when the people of Judah chose him as king in succession to his father Amaziah. (2 K 14,21)
Jotham, son of Uzziah, reigned sixteen years to Jerusalem. (2 K 15,33)
Ahaz, son of Jotham, reigned sixteen years to Jerusalem. (2 K 16,2)
Sixteen classes of priests were formed with the heads of the family of son of Eleazar. (1 Ch 24, 4)
It is the number of years in inside of which the four Gospels were written, according to visions of Mary Agreda.
Difference of age between the Virgin Mary and his Son Jesus, according to visions of Maria Valtorta.
The sixteen petals of the Visuddha Chakra located on the front of the throat.
Ahura-Mazda, according to the Avesta, created for its people 16 places of habitation.
The Jains have 16 goddesses.
The sixteen guardians of the Great Work of Templar.
The sixteen geomantic figures.
In the Hindu religion, an Avatar is an extraordinary being, the miraculous incarnation of the Divine in a human form, for the well of the humanity. By definition, the Avatar has sixteen particular gifts: the ability to materialize objects at will; qualities of omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence; the capacity to transmit a pure love current, inexhaustible; the possibility to transcend all conditions of the Karma which appears by his capacity to transform miraculously the life of a person by an act of divine will.
Some roses of cathedrals have sixteen rays.
The antiquity recognized sixteen plant sacredness: catmint, plant of the vitality; centaury, enchantments; chelidonium, triumph; mistletoe, salvation; heliotrope, sincerity; jusquiame, dead; tongue of dog, sympathy; lily, manifestation; melissa, comfort; nettle, bravery; periwinkle, fidelity; rose, initiation; sage, life; serpentaria, fluid; vervain, love; virgo pastoris, fruitfulness.
Sum of the four first odd numbers (1+3+5+7=16) which, by theosophical addition, gives 1+6=7, the sacred number.
The magic square using the first sixteen numbers is associated to the Jupiter planet and has for sum 34.
The Jupiter planet has 16 satellites.
Anniversary of marriage: weddings of silverware.
The number 16 is used 21 times in the Bible.
The number 80 is used 16 times in the Bible.
Last modification: December 19, 1998